The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

regulations.
The Treasury Department has refused
to accept trade dollars in payment of
dues. Although these coins are Temporal
rily receivable in exchange for standard
dollars, the department says they are de-
prived by law Of any legal-tender quality.
DURING the absence Of the parents on
the night of the 18th, Raymond Shay, aged
five years, of Lebanon, Pa, lighted stick
at the stove and set fire to the clothing Of
his brother Ernest, aged two years. Be-
fore assistance could be rendered Ernest
was burned to death.
The Navy Department has been in
formed that Pay Clerk Chas. A. Gibson,
of the Ossipee, disappeared mysterlously
on March 2S from the Norfolk Navy Yard,
since which time nothing has been heard
as to his whereabouts. His accounts are
found to be correct. He leaves wife
and child in Washington.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has awarded to
the Bethlehem Iron Works Company of
Pennsylvania the contracts for furnish
ing about 1,40O tons of steel gun forging
and 1850 tons of steel armor plates at a
total cost of S4,512,93S It's bid though
not the lowest for the gun steel, was the
lowest in the aggregate for the two con-
tracts.
In the advertisement columns of the
London Daily Ne,Os, on the 18th, appeared
protest against the Coercion bill, signed
by $4,000 non-conformst ministers.
THREE domestcs employed at the Cen
trail hotel at Allegheny City, Pa, were
quite seriously injured by the fall of an
elevator on the 14th, The girls were
going to the third floor, when the rope
broke and the cage dropped to the cellar,
a distance of about forty feet The names
Of the girls could not be learned, as the
landlord would give no information.
THE school building at Loveland, o., was
totally destroyed by fire on the 14th. The
children were rescued with difficulty, so
rapidly did the flames spread. All the
uniforms, ammunition and accoutrements
of Company B, Thirteenth regiment, o. N.
G., were destroyed.
TRoUBL is brewing on the Kiowa In
dian reservation.
The village Of Ainsworth, Ia, was
nearly destroyed by fire on the 155h.
SECRETARY WHITSEY says the cruiser
Atlanta will probably be accepted.
THE Cocheco Mills at Dover, n H., were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. There were
a number Of casualties.
DURING thunderstorm at Youngs-
town, o., on the 18th, Mrs. Michael Mallory
and the family cat were killed by light
ming
JAMES c. DELANo, formerly of Gales
burg, H., died at his home, Mount Pleas
ant, near Washington, D. c., on the 18th.
DR.. BRUILL, the alleged Wisconsin wife
murderer died suddenly in Jail at Dodge
vile on the night of the l4th. 1t is thought
he suicided.
By premature blast of giant powder
in a cut on a grade near Buena Vista, Cal,
on the 18th, six men were killed and
seven wounded.
A BRILLIANT young Virginian named
Robert Gatewood suicided on steamer
near Norfolk on the 18th. He imagined
himself pursued by demons
a STORM of opposition is brewing in the
Canadian Parliament over the govern.
ment course on the fisheries trouble.
Mr. PowDERLY points out few vital
political issues for consideration of the
Knights of Labor and the people of the
country at large.
THE defense closed its argument in the
on the 18th. Ii was thought the case
would reach the jury by the evening Of
the 10Th.
CHARLES TALBOT, the Memphis hote
| clerk, has been convicted of stealing
Fanny Davenports diamonds, and sen
fenced to five years Imprisonment.
A HOTEL in Amsterdam, Holland, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th, and -four
! guests, who had visited the city to attend
the Kings birthday festivities, were
burned to death
EMGN BEY, on his expedition through
Africa, met in the White Nile region King
Mwanga, eighteen years of age, who has
! 1000 wives
BESSIE MASON, ten years Of age, while
playing at Port Byron, H., on the even
ing of the 14th, fell into stoue-quarry
forty feet, and was instantly killed.
ARCHBISHOP CORRTCAN received a cable
message on the 10Th saying Mgr Quinn
died in Paris on the afternoon Of that day
Mgr. Quinn was vicar-gencral of The
diocese Of New York City.
A LARGE fire was reported in progress,
at Kennebuukport, Ne, on the morning o
the 10th. Half Of the business section o.
the town had been consumed. The Bidde
ford fire engines were telegraphed fol
and left on a special train.
THE funeral of Bishop Lee took place a
Wilmington, Del, on the 18TH and wa
very largely attended Nine bishops auC
nearly one hundred clergymen participat
ed in the obsequies. The remains wer,
inferred in the old Sweies' churchyard.
HENRY Inner, the oldest locomotive en-
gineer in the United States died il
Whistle, Ala, on the 10Th He ran tn
first engine on the Charleston q Hamburg
railroad, the third railroad built in thi
country. The drivers of the engine wer
Of hard wood
HALF the town Of Pegu, fifty-eight mile
northeast of Rungoon, has been destroye,
by fire, which was presumably incendiary
Plots have been discovered among the in
habitants of Upper Burmah and IN
Dacoits to burn towns in that section
massacre Europeans and proclaim a uey
king.
Up to the evening Of the 10Th St. Loui
had raised $4,000 toward the entertain
ment fund for the G.. A. R. National en-
campmcnt, to be held in September next
THE Florida Democrats, at last aC
counts, were at a deadlock on their Sena